Mr. David Addai Amankwah, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo-Ano North in the Ashanti Region, has inaugurated a 20-member Child Protection Committee for the area. The Committee is to supervise community child protection committees to be set up in the district to reduce the incidence of worst forms of Child labour in the cocoa industry. Mr. Amankwah urged the committee members to work hard to protect the rights of the child in the wake of high rate of child labour in cocoa growing areas. He said that child labour in whatever form it took denied children of the opportunity to enjoy their rights to education, health and proper care among others. Mr. Amankwah expressed the hope that by the end of this year, the National Programme for Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the cocoa industry would have covered about 47 cocoa growing districts out of the 64. Eight bicycles and a motor bike were presented to the committee to facilitate its work. Mr Ted Oppong, the District Planning Officer, took the members through the terms of reference of their work and urged them to be dedicated to their duty. Source: GNA